Techno Artists with Elektron products

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love to see that

Yes! Do you mean Atlantik from Cologne/Berlin?
Loving their Style of Techno :star_struck:

Martin Stimming is using 2 Octatrack MKII and a Rytm (maybe) on his Live Gigs.
See him live playing is standing on top of my wishlist!

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I enjoyed the Fourtet one massively. Karen Gwyer was awesome and she said at the end, ā€˜yeah I would normally spend a lot more than ten minutes to get something going’. Roni Size was classic, he just laughed and said he couldn’t do a track in ten minutes. Love the honesty! And that guy with the vibraphone, very tasty results.

I’m glad they shut the comments down. Some of those comments were just rude. While I admit I have zero interest in watching someone lay down quarter note kick patterns in ableton with the click track running, it must be good exposure for there music. I have no idea how ATC choose the participants, but if I ever get asked to do it, I would love to!

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Dexter’s ATC was immensely satisfying. And I learned what I had suspected for some time, that his TR-606 might be the most unique one I’ve heard yet. They all sound a little different after all these decades but his really is something else. He has an interesting mod/breakout box connected to it. Turns the toms into a whole new sound.

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Not sure if Xosar has been mentioned here, just found this really cool interview on RA where she talks a lot about workflow/inspiration/machines and the Octatrack specifically (she was an Electribe witch for ages then moved up to OT later). Great pics and discussion.

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Her description of how she works with electribe was exactly how I used mine, and I use that same workflow with the octatrack.
I was quite impressed by her Dekmantel set, having ones gear lost but playing a set on a borrowed Electribe is bold. I wonder if she had her own memory card on her, or if he entire set was literally borrowed?
Dunno about the phrase ā€˜moved up to OT’, not sure I agree with the implication that the octatrack is somehow ā€˜above’ the electribe.

I have owned three electribes myself, but eventually I came to the conclusion I worked better with a bunch of synths plus OT. Still love the electribes! if I could clone myself, that clone would be busy creating electribe music!

I saw a Robyn performance on bbc iPlayer a few weeks ago , live at ibiza I think

The music peeps were using elektron A4 / keys I think.
Also had drummer with large kit though I couldn’t hear anything being triggered when she hit a pad , probably just there for the ā€˜visual spectacle ā€˜
Robyn did at least sing live .
The song was ok , very pop , synth sounds could’ve been from many synths , nothing especially ā€˜elektron’ about them .

She makes that implication herself, and I guess it is above in terms of features. Not necessarily workflow or musicality I guess, but I’ve never used an ESX.

That dekmantel story is wild, I’d imagine she had her card though, would be pretty hilarious trying to stumble through a set with someone else’s samples and patterns.

Totally! ESX/EMX are more fun to play but yeah OT has more depth of features. So hard to pick one over the other!

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@Rea_001 posted this Baseck video recently. :thup:
Tempest, Digitone, and a mixer…

He’s a very creative guy who really surprised me with just a PO35…after 24h.

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Grischa uses an AR and A4:

Full playlist of that show if you’re into it:

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I think he uses laptop exclusively if i’m not mistaken. Havn’t seen him touch the AR/A4 once in the video, might’ve been someone else’s setup. Great artist though!

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pretty sure that’s someone else’s gear who he’s sharing the stage/line up with.

i’m a big fan of his work. love the new album btw. the vocal processing is really nice. he’s an in the box guy though does some field recording and stuff. there’s several interviews where he openly discusses his process and tools.

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baseck is great. legit bangers when he plays live. saw him play w/just 2 rows of modular and an old drum brain and he killed it and had to do an encore because people wouldn’t let him leave. lol.

if you ever have a chance to hear him DJ or perform live don’t miss it. he does a lot of different styles depending on the night/line up etc but it’s all good.

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She is amazing. Another EBTV vid has a full JakoJako track performance that is super good.

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Ah I didn’t realize that. Crazy what he can do in the box. He is one of my faves, especially when it comes to drums/percussion.

Picking up on this old comment I found this video:

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Yan Cook for the Digitone win!

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